Re: [PATCH] Fix Reiser4 Dependencies

[Edward Shishkin <edward@namesys.com>]

Andrew James Wade wrote:

>Hello Edward, Hans.
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>>Edward Shishkin wrote:
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>>>ZLIB_INFLATE/DEFLATE  will be selected by special reiser4 related
>>>configuration
>>>option "Enable reiser4 compression plugins of gzip family" ...
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>Sounds promising.
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>>>Anyway thanks,
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>You're welcome.
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>On June 21, 2005 02:47 pm, Hans Reiser wrote:
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>>I am sorry, are you telling him that it works for you because you have
>>code that is different?
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>As I understand it, when his upcoming changes are merged, base Reiser4
>would no longer depend on ZLIB_INFLATE/DEFLATE and my patch would then be
>incorrect. 
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Yes, this will be supported optionally, plus some code to check it in 
the places
where zlib is really needed.

Edward.

>I am not in a position to know whether a code-dump or a minimal
>fix or something in-between is most appropriate for the next -mm release,
>for the moment just tweaking the Kconfig is working for me (I'm using
>Reiser4 under 2.6.12-mm1 with no further problems).
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>HTH,
>Andrew
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